Roy, that just sounds like a no-win situation. I agree that from your description the kid handled it the best possible way. Maybe the examiner just doesn't like to give perfect scores?
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Roy, that just sounds like a no-win situation. I agree that from your description the kid handled it the best possible way. Maybe the examiner just doesn't like to give perfect scores?
Peets?Quote:
Originally Posted by westofyou
Cousins of peeps? :D
Folks this is pathetic. I don't check this thread for 3 days and we've only gone from 66 to 72?
Where's the dedication? Where are the sleepless nights posting away on this thread?
I'm just disappointed.
Edit your posts per page in your user CP.Quote:
Originally Posted by jmcclain19
I just had to read through about 7-8 pages of stuff to know what was said over the weekend.
I just did the math and there have been an average of 81 posts a day in this thread. Something to keep in mind if you're thinking of how often you need to check it to stay current.
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Originally Posted by jmcclain19
Not in me!
I sit here and post and post and others don't post back, I can only talk to myself for so long before it gets repetitive ;)
And since it is Monday, the STK Award is back. First, the winners thus far have been IowaRed with two STK's and Red Leader, also with 2 STK's.
What was Elaine's other occupation on the TV show "Taxi" - besides cab driver?
Being Obnoxious?Quote:
Originally Posted by Puffy
Which means we're all in need of sunlight, new friends and better lives :mhcky21:Quote:
Originally Posted by Unassisted
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Originally Posted by jmcclain19
No, that was Louie's other job
The fact that you're doing "the math" on this thread is a little spooky; like a culturally-defining moment, or something, if the RedsZone glitterati (such as they are) can be considered to be a culture, and not just one you find growing on the underside of your cheddar, and when I say cheddar, it's not a clever euphemism; actually, it's not clever at all. Or something.
ummm, something about art....can't remember....art sales, art store owner....something like that.
Close enough - she was a manager of an art gallery.Quote:
Originally Posted by Red Leader
Red Leader captures his third STK - good work!
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Originally Posted by Puffy
YAY!!! When I was a developing youngster, I loved Redheads. Marilu Henner was one of them. I stayed up late to watch her on the Late Show one night when I was probably 12 or 13. Man, did she "have it" back then :MandJ:
Hey - does anyone here follow soccer?
If so, well... I don't know anything at all about it. Is there a good website I can look at to get a general overview of the sport?
(and why do I keep trying to hit CTRL+ENTER to submit a post?)
Hmm..blueberry muffins
81 posts a day?
We need to get that up to 100 a day
Goals people..Goals
Cheddar England (where real Cheddar cheese comes from) is home of the Cheddar Gorge, the English Grand Canyon. It's a great area of the country to explore (just don't make a lot of wise-ass cheese comments like Roy did and get greeted with blank stares).Quote:
Originally Posted by zombie-a-go-go
http://www.picturesofengland.com/Cheddar/#about
I'll do my part :thumbup:
The banana is mentioned for the first time in history in buddhist texts 600 years BC. Alexander the Great discovers the taste of the banana in the Indian valleys in 327 BC . The existence of an organized banana plantation could be found in China back in the year 200 AD. In 650 AD, Islamic conquerors brought the banana back to Palestine. The Arabic merchants finally spread the bananas all over Africa.
Only in 1502 the Portuguese start the first banana plantation in the Caribbean and in central America.
Im not sure exactly how to express the sheer joy I feel when I pick up another random, useless bit of knowledge from somewhere, so I won't even try.Quote:
Originally Posted by Roy Tucker
Thanks, Roy. :gac:
The banana plant is ...not a tree, but a giant herb of the same family as lilies, orchids and palms. There are about 400 varieties of bananas. The rhizome is planted and gives a first shoot 3 or 4 weeks later. After 9 to 10 months the inflorescence from the foliated circlet has a diameter that can be as large as 7 meters. Three days after that, a bud hangs on the plant. On the fifth day, the bud turns red and starts opening. On the seventh day the leafs who covered it are falling down and finally two days later you can already see the first banana hands.The trunk of a banana plant is made of sheaths of overlapping leaves, tightly wrapped around each other like stalks in a celery bunch.
The word banana is derivated from the Arabic meaning 'finger'.
...and KR. :thumbup:Quote:
Originally Posted by KronoRed
I'm drinking my first Coke C2 right now. Can't quite figure it out. Doesn't taste like Diet, and doesn't taste like Regular. Tastes like they dumped in a bunch of Aquafina to the regular stuff and watered it down to lower the carbs, sugar, etc.
If I eat another donut this morning, I just might vomit.
In 1895, William G. Morgan, an instructor at the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) in Holyoke, Mass., decided to blend elements of basketball, baseball, tennis, and handball to create a game for his classes of businessmen which would demand less physical contact than basketball. He created the game of Volleyball (at that time called mintonette). Morgan borrowed the net from tennis, and raised it 6 feet 6 inches above the floor, just above the average man's head.
During a demonstration game, someone remarked to Morgan that the players seemed to be volleying the ball back and forth over the net, and perhaps "volleyball" would be a more descriptive name for the sport. On July 7, 1896 at Springfield College the first game of "volleyball" was played.
It's 'new' cokeQuote:
Originally Posted by Red Leader
Throw it away and get a real one
In every country that makes bread, there arises the question of what to do with the leftover scraps of dough. In England, they dropped the bits into soup or water, and made dumplings. But in Holland and in Germany, cooks dropped the extra into boiling oil, and made fry-cakes, or olie-koecken. The Dutch fancied up their leftovers a bit more by shaping them into decorative knots (dough knots), and rolling in sugar afterwards.
The Puritans found these little cakes a pleasure during their stay in Holland, and took the method with them to the New World. They found a similar dish in the Native American fried bread, a situation that would cause a bit of confusion later on when culinary historians tried to track down the origins of the confection.
Doughnuts have long been associated with holiday festivities. The Dutch and German made them as a Christmas specialty. Later, Europeans would make them an important part of the pre-Lent festivities. Mardi Gras wouldn't be the same without beignets (the French version of the doughnut) or the fastnachtkuches (literally, fasting night cakes-the same dish under a different name) of the Germanic peoples.
I was watching Olympic beach volleyball on Saturday and during one of the contests the announcers said that it was legal to use your feet. Has anyone ever heard this before? I've played volleyball a long, long time (our fraternity had a beach volleyball court in the backyard) and I had never heard this, is it true?
You are welcome sir. I do my best to collect these bits of information from near and far.Quote:
Originally Posted by zombie-a-go-go
Since I am such a wealth of half-assed and utterly useless information, people refuse to play Trivial Pursuit with me anymore.
RTQuote:
Originally Posted by Roy Tucker
A couple of years ago I had to get another licsense in a different state then the one I currently and previously lived in, so they forced me to retake the exam and the driving test again.
I had something similiar, I stopped at a stop sign, which was going into a major street, and was turning right with the instructor, but I didn't see quite clearly, so I started off, then saw another car in the middle lane change to the right lane, so I hit the brakes so I wouldn't pull out in front of him, then waited till he passed and then entered the street.
After the test, thinking I aced it, he told me I just barely passed it. I apparently hadn't thought to adjust my mirrors in his presence(It was my vehicle that I drove to the DMV) or gotten out to do a pre-drive inspection of the vehicle (nit picking to the extreme) and then was tagged because I hesitated and stopped twice at the stop sign.
A friend who was with me saw how red my face was getting and how I was starting to challenge the instructor so she pinched me in the side, and I just bit my tounge, said thanks and walked away, never having found out why I was penalized for that.
Anyway, I've had it happen to me, and this was having had driven a car for six years already, so not to sweat it.
Feet?
I can't see how it would help
So it might be legal
What kind of overview?Quote:
Originally Posted by zombie-a-go-go
I know that I also hit up BigSoccer.com, but it's a discussion forum.
Do you want a explanation of the rules of the game type site? Or a daily news site?
You can use any part of your body. You just have the most control with your forearms. It just has to be smacked, not "carried" so to speak.Quote:
Originally Posted by Red Leader
When I played intramural beach volleyball in college, we had a team that did both, and had the rules clarified.
Actually, this rule changed just last year.Quote:
Originally Posted by Red Leader
It used to be the ball had to hit above the waist (head, shoulders, chest, etc were all legal hits).
My son plays on the Mason HS boys team and some kid from Middletown last year kicked at a ball in frustration right back over the net. Our kids just let the ball drop thinking it was a dead ball. The ref said "point Middletown".
After they scraped our coach off the ceiling, the ref showed our coach the updated rule book.
Rally scoring and the libero also came into play in Ohio HS volleyball last year.
How bout a volleyball team standing on their hands playing with their feet :lol:
Well, if that's the case and you can use your feet in volleyball, I'd be trying Pele's "bicycle kick" in volleyball all the time (as seen in the movie Victory). It would probably be difficult to get it high enough to get over the net, and then if you did that, to keep it in-bounds on the other side, but I'd still try it.
Just an explanation would be great. I know nothing about soccer, save that the players can't use their hands, it's real big in, well, everyplace except the States, and that the terribly-beautiful Keira Knightley was in a film which takes its name from a soccer player named Dave.Quote:
Originally Posted by jmcclain19
Well, here's my explanationQuote:
Originally Posted by zombie-a-go-go
Next to baseball there is no better sport.
I don't much care for that newfangled rally scoring. I've seen a few NCAA games in the last couple of years and IMHO, the points come too easy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Roy Tucker
I went to a high school that won 2 or 3 state championships in girls volleyball, 20-some years ago, so I watched a fair number of games. Not sure I've ever seen the libero, although our teams had a couple of front-row and back-row specialists. Is there some different kind of substitution involved with it?